A) Our lawmakers assigned to the job are new and don’t use public transit B) The managers of the Dept of Transportation are too focused on promoting people who drive alone. They also lie frequently. C) ODOT is causing more deaths. ODOT does not act on #visionZero to reduce deaths to zero. 2016 saw nearly 500 dead on our roads, that’s an increase from previous years. It’s close to the 2003 record high of 520.

The house committee on transportation has 9 members. None live in Portland. None live in Multnomah county. Only one lives near 24 hour transit. Only 3 could get to Salem by walking to transit. 6 of 9 must use a personal vehicle to get from their remote homes to Salem.

Video: Bragdon: “It(CRC) did not add up..They continually stonewalled and through either incompetence or dishonesty at the highest levels of ODOT just refused to acknowledge” https://youtu.be/Pk1rW5S-S5A?t=1h5m29s

Video: On the ODOT failure of a 2015 Transporation Bill – It “was old school, no performance measures” — “Big road widening at the edge of town” — “key projects for key legislators if they vote the right way” https://youtu.be/Pk1rW5S-S5A?t=34m5s

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Video 2014 The speaker of the Oregon house did not answer questions about the CRC. Activists were stonewalled. When you toss out lies, you have never answered a question. For years activists presented alternatives that were scaled down and phased in slowly.

– The project cost of $3.5 billion is a myth, The real cost is $10 billion. The cost of construction was $3 to 5 billion , but you need to add $5-6 billion for bond interest and operational costs. video

Stonewalling on the CRC noted by a lawmaker Lew Frederick “more of the questions asked, should have been answered”

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Thank you Joe for posting that. It’s good to look at the decision making process to see how we got to the point of proposing an unwieldy? project, the CRC and then being told it was the only choice. Clearly the time to pay attention is when a project or problem is first mentioned.

It would be interesting to have a follow-up on how the nine committee members were named.